- Location(s): Uzbekistan
- Genre(s): Fiction, Poetry
- Era(s): late 15th century
The Language of the Birds is a masterpiece of Eastern Turkish literature (now Uzbek), and was written by one of Central Asia’s most prominent poets, Alisher Nava’i, shortly before his death in 1501. The story begins with the birds...
- Location(s): Norfolk
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Everything has changed for Dr Ruth Galloway. She has a new job, home and partner, and is no longer North Norfolk police’s resident forensic archaeologist. That is, until convicted murderer Ivor March offers to make DCI Nelson a deal....
- Location(s): Wyoming, Laramie
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): 1998
On October 7, 1998, a young gay man was discovered bound to a fence in the hills outside Laramie, Wyoming, savagely beaten and left to die in an act of hate that shocked the nation. Matthew Shepard’s death became...
- Location(s): Sussex
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Love may be blind, but obsession’s a real killer. Nora Holliday is not that kind of woman. Not the kind who has an illicit affair with a married man. But Josh Landon is everything Nora’s alcoholic husband isn’t. And...
- Location(s): World
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): modern
At the age of seventeen, Eustace Conway ditched the comforts of his suburban existence to escape to the wild. Away from the crushing disapproval of his father, he lived alone in a teepee in the mountains. Everything he needed...
- Location(s): Svalbard, Norway
- Genre(s): Children, Fiction
- Era(s): N/A
Imagine making friends with a polar bear… The Last Bear is perfect for readers of 8+, beautifully illustrated throughout by Levi Pinfold – winner of the Kate Greenaway Medal and illustrator of Harry Potter 20th anniversary edition covers. “This...
- Location(s): Greece, Italy, Malta, Syria
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
The Inspector George Zammit Series Book 5 An act of sacrifice A young boy starts his journey in the refugee camps of Syria, only to find himself excited on the terraces of a football stadium in London. How did...
- Location(s): Truro (Cape Cod), New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Coming of Age
- Era(s): 1980s
A propulsive tale of ambition and romance, set in the publishing world of 1980’s New York and the timeless beaches of Cape Cod. In the summer of 1987, 25-year-old Eve Rosen is an aspiring writer languishing in a low-level...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1939-1940
August 1939: London prepares for war as Hitler’s forces sweep across Europe. Grace Bennett has always dreamed of moving to the city, but the bunkers and blackout curtains that she finds on her arrival were not what she expected....
- Location(s): Prague
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): WW2
Was she incredibly brave or incredibly stupid? Neither. Just a bookshop girl doing what she could against her country’s oppressors. The banned books club was only the beginning; a place for the women of Prague to come together and...
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